Date of Birth | 1658 | |
Place of Birth | Aberdeen | 001 |
Father's Name | Dr Thomas Gordon | 001 |
Mother's Name | Jean Hay | 001 |
Married | Margaret Ross | 001 |
Daughter | Anna | 001 |
Daughter | Mary | 001 |
Date of Death | 1741/03/18 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
1688 | Margaret of Aberdeen | As captain, made several voyages until 1693 | 001 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
17 July 1703 | Royal Mary | Commissioned as Captain | B062 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
7 March 1706 | Royal William | Commissioned as Commodore |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
1707 | Edinburgh | Royal William taken into the Royal Navy vessel | B062 |
3 February 1708 | Leopard | As captain | 001 |
5 November 1709 | Moor | 001 | |
6 May 1710 | Advice | 001 | |
1714 | Resigned his commission as he refused to take an oath of abjuration | 001 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
1 June 1717 | Joined the Russian navy | 001 | |
Katharina | B063 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
1 January 1718 | 001 | ||
1719 | Lesnoy | While towing out of Kronslot, caught on the fluke of an anchor, bilged and sank | B063 |
1719 | Moskva | B063 | |
19 June 1721 | Entered Revel with a squadron of six ships of the line and three frigates | B064 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
September 1721 | Promoted | B063 | |
1722 | Command of a squadron of around fourteen ships of the line in the Baltic | B058 | |
1723 | Nord-Adler | B058 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
6 May 1727 |
Date | Ship | Notes | Source |
November 1727 | Appointed | ||
15 May 1734 | Peter I and II | Left Kronstadt as commander of a fleet heading for Danzig | 002 |
1 June 1734 | Arrived in Danzig to assist the seige | 002 | |
13 June 1734 | Peter I and II | Danzig surrendered | B058 |
29 June 1734 | Peter I and II | Left Danzig | B058 |
9 July 1734 | Peter I and II | Arrived in Revel | B058 |
13 July 1734 | Peter I and II | The fleet arrived in Kronstadt | B058 |
30 June 1836 | Made an honorary burgess of Aberdeen |
Date | Ship | Source | |
001 | Wikipedia | |
002 | Website on the Russian Navy | |
B058 | Naval wars in the Baltic 1522 - 1850 | R. C. Anderson |
B062 | The Old Scots Navy 1689-1707 | Navy Records Society |
B063 | The Russian Fleet Under Peter The Great | Navy Records Society |